A permanência no programa nacional de integração da educação profissional à educação básica na modalidade de educação de jovens e adultos na perspectiva dos estudantes

Abstract

The present Master’s Dissertation analyzes Programa Nacional de Integração da Educação Profissional à Educação Básica embedded in Educação de Jovens e Adultos (PROEJA), developed at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), at campuses Ipanguaçu, Mossoró, Santa Cruz e Zona Norte. Its general objective is to analyze the factors that contribute to permanence of students as participants of Programa Nacional de Integração da Educação Profissional à Educação Básica embedded in Educação de Jovens e Adultos (PROEJA) at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN) from the students’ perspective. The object of study are these factors of permanence from the students’ perspective. The analyzes of this objective considers rise and decline of the Program at IFRN, as well as PROEJA at IFRN campuses of Ipanguaçu, Mossoró, Santa Cruz e Zona Norte. Students were heard in order to try to identify factors to permanence and their dimensions. It is a qualitative and exploratory research. For the data analyzes, a difference was established between extrinsic and intrinsic factors, based on the ideas by Rumberger and Lim (2008), as well as the categories of permanence factors by Sales (2014), with the purpose of identifying which factors are more determinant for permanence. The current reality of IFRN was analyzed, based on laws and documents related to the Program, and specific characteristics of EJA were discussed, analyzing the possible factors of permanence of PROEJA students at campuses Ipanguaçu, Mossoró, Santa Cruz e Zona Norte. The results have shown that there is not only one determinant factor that makes students continue at the Program. Extrinsic and intrinsic factors contribute for permanence. The conclusion is that permanence is related to institutional, socioeconomic and personal factors. The analyses of factors for permanence was made considering all the context in which the students are inserted, going beyond the students’ answers in order to contextualize intrinsic and extrinsic factors and the decisions taken by the students who intended to stay and PROEJA and finish their studies.